Regina Brett and Jim Donovan will be among the 2009 inductees into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Columnist Regina Brett and three other current and former staff members of The Plain Dealer will be inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame this fall by the Press Club of Cleveland.

Also being honored at the October inductions are three current and former members of WKYC Channel 3, including sports director Jim Donovan, one of the most recognized voices in Cleveland sports.

The honorees will be formally inducted at a banquet Oct. 28 at LaCentre in Westlake.

Brett, twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is being honored for her "compelling columns that move the heart, challenge authority and often trigger action," according to the Press Club. The Kent State University graduate has been named the best columnist in Ohio by the Press Club of Cleveland, the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press Society of Ohio.

Joining Brett in the Hall of Fame in 2009 will be William Wynne, a Plain Dealer photographer who garnered awards and illustrated powerful expos s before his retirement in 1984.

Plain Dealer Editorial Page Editor Elizabeth Sullivan and former Plain Dealer and Cleveland Press reporter Walt Bogdanich will also take their places in the Hall of Fame this year. Both were chosen last year but were unable to attend the induction ceremony.

Bogdanich has won the Pulitzer Prize three times, most recently in 2008 for investigative reporting at The New York Times.

Entering the hall of fame from WKYC will be Dick Russ, one of Ohio's most respected and versatile broadcast journalists. Russ has worked as a reporter, anchor and editor in local television news for 30 years. He is now managing editor at WKYC-TV.

The Press Club also will induct Donovan, the radio play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Browns, and Paul Sciria, a former WKYC reporter and a pioneer in the ethnic press.

Sciria became Channel 3's first full-time news reporter in 1957 and worked at the station for 18 years. In 1992, he founded La Gazzetta Italiana, a monthly newspaper targeting Ohio's Italian-American community. At age 80, Sciria holds the title of senior editor at La Gazzetta.